A young French Korean woman works as a receptionist in a tired guesthouse.
Bodies are red and raw, the fish turn venomous, beyond the beach guns point out from the North’s watchtowers. It’s winter in Sokcho, a tourist town on the border between South and North Korea. Elisa Shua Duspain’s voice is distinctive and unmistakable.2021 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER FOR TRANSLATED LITERATUREĪs if Marguerite Duras wrote Convenience Store Woman–a beautiful, unexpected novel from a debut French Korean author An exquisitely-crafted debut, which won the Prix Robert Walser, Winter in Sokcho is a novel about shared identities and divided selves, vision and blindness, intimacy and alienation. As she’s pulled into his vision and taken in by his drawings, she strikes upon a way to finally be seen. But he takes no interest in the Sokcho she knows – the gaudy neon lights, the scars of war, the fish market where her mother works. When she agrees to accompany him on trips to discover an ‘authentic’ Korea, they visit snowy mountaintops and dramatic waterfalls, and cross into North Korea. One evening, an unexpected guest arrives: a French cartoonist determined to find inspiration in this desolate landscape.
You can read this before Winter in Sokcho PDF EPUB full Download at the bottom.Īs if Marguerite Duras wrote Convenience Store Woman – a beautiful, unexpected novel from a debut French Korean author It’s winter in Sokcho, a tourist town on the border between South and North Korea.
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